Her life began in China, where she was called Song Yang and enjoyed picking ginseng and collecting butterflies. It ended in Queens, N.Y., where she called herself SiSi while toiling in the netherworld of illicit massage parlors.https://nyti.ms/2yFRrSe
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The police make sporadic sweeps, and immigrant women are arrested again and again, but few in the city take notice https://nyti.ms/2Cbi98I pic.twitter.com/qOty9U17j1
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Song Yang was one of these women. On a neon-charged November night, she plummeted 4 stories to the pavement she had so often worked. https://nyti.ms/2Cbi98I pic.twitter.com/QUEyVyVxB7
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Her death shattered a tight-knit family that would never accept the police version of events. It also reflected the seemingly intractable nature of policing the commercial sex trade.https://nyti.ms/2Cbi98I
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Excellent research into the sleazy world of the hapless and the exploited and those abetting it ... the myriad colours of the immigrant experience
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sex economy in Queens? Who would have thought.
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USA NASA MUST CHANGE THE CODE NUMBER USA FEDERAL USA CIA FBI FEDERAL JUDGE FEDERAL COURT JUDGE NAVY SILE AMERICAN SECRETI SERVICE INTELLIGENCE AMERICAN VETERANS MUST CHANGE INSTRACTION
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#MAGA for yearsful, the flushing sectionful of queensful has been an ever-replenishingful repositoryful of immigrantsful in t…fulThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Liberal policies. Thanks dems make some more "sanctuaries" for thugs.
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I worked in flushing queens doing construction for 4 months and never ran into anything like this..should've been looking in the right places smfh
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